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It's spring in Calgary - That means brown grass, a few green shoots, and snowfall as unpredictable as a wounded boar.
Here's 672, an eastbound potash train, coming into Calgary with the rocky mountains in the background.
UP SD90/43MAC 8264 and CP Rail AC440 9738 provide the horsepower for this grain train. However, the train was tied down and the AC4400 was not running.
BNSF ES44AC #6062, accompanied by 2 trailing units, a BNSF AC4400 & a BNSF SD70ACe, crest the divide at Blossberg after climbing a 1.2% grade up the west side.
This is the first original order CP ac4400 I've seen in a total Beaver paint job. All the others have dual flag style numbers and nose. Lone unit on an auto train.
A southbound MEDHK at Felts Field in Spokane, WA. The train is one the former Spokane International, the track in the foreground was once the GN line to Coeur d'Alene, ID. But now the local governments want to move the UP trains onto the BNSF and make this a highway, prehaps in the next five years.
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